https://xcancel.com/Defence_Index/status/2011280167608701398
Signs of possible U.S. B-2 activity emerging. Eyes on Iran, the next 24 hours may matter. 👀
🚨🇺🇸 UNUSUAL U.S. AIR FORCE ACTIVITY RAISES QUESTIONS
Eight KC-135 Stratotankers have landed in Hawaii, a transit hub previously used ahead of June’s Middle East operations involving Iranian nuclear sites.
Now, two KC-135Rs have departed Hawaii and are heading west, drawing fresh attention to U.S. military movements.
This is supposedly part of the Sentry Aloha exercise that has planned for some time.
Flying units include the 154th Wing (WG) (F-22, KC-135) and Airborne Tactical Advantage Company (MK-58) from Hawai‘i, 115th Fighter Wing (FW) (F-35A) and 128th Air Refueling Wing (ARW) (KC-135) from Wisconsin, 159th FW (F-15C) from Louisiana, 155th ARW (KC-135) from Nebraska, 153rd Airlift Wing (C-130H) from Wyoming, 3rd WG (E-3) from Alaska, 552nd Air Control Wing (E-3) from Oklahoma, with support personnel from multiple units, states and Australia. The aircraft will take part in simulated combat exercises with the 199th and 19th Fighter Squadrons’ Hickam-based ‘Hawaiian Raptors.’
I’m losing my fucking mind the way that these people are always doing this shit for no fucking reason. Let me guess, Iran has oil or poppies or ties to China or whatever. Oh, what’s that? If the money were spent on renewables you’d get a return 30% faster but then we’d have less need for military? We need a pretext for military intervention because George Bush Senior thought it was neat if we privatized the military? THIS SHIT FUCKING SUCKS. I’M SO FUCKING SICK OF IT.
When I play chess on the chess website and someone is from Iran I tell them “sorry about America” and sometimes they reply “it’s okay, it’s your shitty leaders” or “I don’t hate Americans themselves” but it’s like you SHOULD hate Americans too because Americans are the boots on the ground and the ones who fire the fucking missiles because they’re bored and don’t really want to work at McDonald’s. They justify killing innocents because you’re bored as a means of getting out of poverty which even that is statistically dubious but nobody’s ever going to listen to the minutia of things that the floating head behind a desk didn’t say because the American already said the line and all that’s left for them to do is have TV static between their fucking ears until you’re finished talking and then be confused because they already said the bazinga fucking line FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU FOREVER! FREE PALESTINE
Agreed.
Thing is America’s economy is cooked. It’s AI grifts, crypto scams, and gambling all the way down. The only actual wing of the economy is the military industrial complex and washing the dollar through other countries via warfare and asset seizure.
We’re fully into the newest Lebensraum era of the US where, as the generals kept saying to Hitler, ‘the war will pay for itself’.
The only problem for the US is that it usually doesn’t as the targets get harder and the ROI of plundering countries gets thinner. I mean, look at Trump’s meeting with the oil execs for an early example; they don’t even want to invest $100bn for oil extraction in Venezuela because they don’t think the US can keep control of it long-term.
What is so unfathomable is how there are thousands of these nameless ghouls working in the in the bowels of government who have so much energy and drive to fuck up the world. A lot of them are literally sacrificing their lives and devoting all their worldly energies to it.
hilarious how these things can’t be done in complete secret to most of the world anymore
Yeah, we often say stuff like “wow my cyberpunk dystopia has none of the cool parts of a cyberpunk dystopia”, but if you are creative, and you think about it long enough, there are definitely some cool parts.
It’s just hard to enjoy them what with us basically being in a shooting war with a fascist state while everyone tries their hardest to pretend we aren’t.
I sense something in the air. Something much much bigger than the BLM protests. If we had not already crossed the line before, I think the back to back shootings of Good and the couple in Oregon will make for what historians will trace the roots of the second American Civil War.
We’re starting to have braincells grown in labs used as processors for computers. Ukraine is coated in internet cables used in the control of tiny killer drones. The government knows so much about you that it practically knows nothing about you because it cannot handle all the data. A message on a website by someone pretending to be a company can kill the stock value of said company - for a day, until someone somewhere types in an extra zero on the right account.
A tiny piece of plastic carries your life’s worth and if you don’t use it then you will never be able to owe someone money for a house. The most powerful men in the world regularly appear on public entertainment systems in order to sell “crypto-coin” a version of money thats even further detached from what gives it value, the only purpose of which seems to be to purchase drugs, illegal pornography, order murders, launder money or to function as a scam. It is in fact expected of the seller of cryptocurrency that they artificially inflate its’ value.
Modern day heists involve replicating other peoples phones in order to access “bit coin wallets”.
Your phone knows your name.
It shares it with all the devices that are in your apartment.Yesteryears devices are gathered in massive heaps in less wealthy countries, where young kids scrap them for precious metals. The more knowledgeable of them will refurbish electronics into Frankensteined devices more powerful than what the average Western consumer has, either because it is not shackled with the same spyware or because computer parts have increased in price while the quality has remained the same, at best.
When the hoi polloi are stuck at home hiding away from dangerous weather - Hurricanes, blizzards, tornadoes or evermore frequent firstorms - they can use their phone to have a less fortunate soul bring them food, snacks or regular groceries. This luxury can be paid for through various loan services.
Your phone knows you gave it a fake name.I could go on, but im becoming cliché. Still, I “love” to think about how cyberpunk the world is.
in a cyberpunk story the trans girls in the long socks would be able to down those planes from a coffee shop or public library.
Downs a pint of RC-spiked energy drink, puts on VR headset I’m logging on! Let’s see, jumping out of the clearnet, purging my digital fingerprints… done.
Zooming to the Kuala Lumpur node… here we go. OK, now changing my avatar to be that of a FinanceWeb Spider-Crawler.
Bouncing to Mexico City, 3rd Level Shadowhub. Attempting to find traces of transactions by USAF pilots in Tijuana.
This one looks juicy… hmmm, yep, got him. He bought convenience store dick pills with his credit card. Currently operating a BX-2 over the Pacific.
Hijacking the man-machine interface… Oooh yeah, handling it. Sliding into the BX-2’s gestalt field. I AM the bomber.
Doing a 180. We’re going to Virginia, friends!
friends
no no it has to be “choombas” or “chummers” or something else, otherwise it’s not authentically Cyberpunk
so that means all the other words i typed were acceptable, right?
how about “AirBuds”? “Phyle-Membos”? “ClannerZ”?
“ClannerZ”
now were cooking
I wish China made this game
Be the China you dream of
Do the pilots temporarily increase their IQ before air strikes with dick pills?
They sacrifice their dicks to boner rot for the US empire. Sadge.
these are cyberpunk dick pills that turn your grey matter into erectile tissue
…Johnny Arson, we have a mission for you.
maybe she can… but probably only one and then she’d be toast
they kill one white lady and now we’re in a shooting war
these fascists have killed so many fucking people wtfthat’s what pisses me off about all this anger. Sure, yes it is justified to be angry about ICE openly killing people, but how many non-whites have they killed so far and barely a mum from anyone over it? One white and now it’s gone too far.
My thoughts exactly. Even some of the crackers on here are like “shits really hit the fan now, white people its time to get buy a gun” racist ass reactionary motherfuckers y’all are still not getting it. 😒
Yes but we all knew for the majority of America to get the memo it was going to require a pretty white girl dying. That is just the sad reality we live in.
That’s gross
Yes America is a vile country. Also I didn’t say that is when it actually started which we could nitpick all the way back to landing on Plymouth Rock.
I mean technically it goes back to the development of caste and proto-capitalism in western europe. Check out Black Marxism its a dense read, but so worth it.
us basically being in a shooting war with a fascist state while everyone tries their hardest to pretend we aren’t.
mood
This is just ADS-B, which aircraft can turn off at any time by switching off the XPDR. The US is absolutely capable of moving planes in secret (at least relative to the general public, as KC-135s show up on radar). Whenever you see military aircraft show up on a flight tracker, they either don’t care about being seen, or are saber rattling. The Trump USAF loves to show off when it repositions aircraft though, so I imagine the coming forward deployment of a B-2 to Diego Garcia or Al-Udeid will be done with XPDRs on, parking in open air, and a Twitter post to accompany the flight.
The thing is, as TankieTanuki pointed out, they have their transponders on. They are letting it be known on purpose.
bombbombbomb bomblindseygraham
Yea I guess John McCain is already dead.
How’s the pizza index looking?
(What a fucking amerikkkan thing to say, jfc)
It’s been up for quite a number of days now.
Dominos +137%
Pizzato +278%
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But yesterday
Dominos >+1000%
Pizzato +294%
Maybe the Pentagon got together to game it out yesterday? I remember waiting for the 12 day war a day early because of the Pizza Index.
People are reacting as if the Pizza Index spiked just now. Idk if psy op, or if there is an actual short term spike.
https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=pizza+index&since=&until=&min_faves=
one day we’ll find out the pentagon has invested in giant pizza freezers and industrial microwaves so that they can time delay/head fake the index
strategic pizza reserves
(I guess they would actually be tactical pizza reserves)
Sounds even funnier.
My theory is that it has been up for all those days because they keep trying to figure out a way to invade a country they already occupy (Greenland).
“Okay what if we land a bunch of troops like in Normandy?”
We’re allowed to do that, so they wouldn’t react like an invasion and nothing would change
“We quickly construct a bunch of new bases?”
We’re allowed to do that
“Paratroopers?”
We’re allowed to do that
“What about a nuke?”
We’re allowed to do that
“What if we withdraw all of our troops and then put them back?”
That would be quite easy to do, we’ve almost already done it. We only have one base left right now and that’s because -
“We’re allowed to do that. Uhh what if we do a colour revolution?”
There’s only 50.000 people there, we can’t really hire enough to fake a movement
“Fuck. What about naval maneuvers?”
We’re already doing that because we’re allowed to do that
“What if we kidnap their prime minister?”
The author would love for that to happen, so let’s go with that“What about a nuke?”
We’re allowed to do that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash always funny to bring up to a Dane who doesn’t believe they’re a vassal
Dominos >+1000%
lmao we are so cooked
the beast hungers. the blood of the innocent must flow
Military craft use transponders?
its a tactic to broadcast in public shit like this. ‘‘oh look where we are’’ and then turn them off to go ‘‘oh now you dont, guess what we’re doing haha’’. before the venezuela air campaign they spent months flying around them with the transponders on
Sure would be a shame if BRICS have been working on an AAC system set to track flight patterns after transponders go dark using the same AI systems they’d have like two decades of data to perfect the algorithmic learning process on. Kind of like an exhaust vent in the side of your deathstar if you’ve been training military AI on your own fucking military actions and the responses of resistance fighters you’ve intentionally impoverished ahead of time.
That’s an Ace you wouldn’t expose, however. Except maybe in the case of after a fullblown invasion of Iran. If you were BRICS, I mean.
Maybe, there’s lots of weapons that won’t be revealed (let alone their true capabilities) until they are seen in action. However, it doesn’t bode well that short of hypothetical wunderwaffen (up to and including surprise nuclear proliferation from Iran) the US has so far only lost its most advanced materiel through unforced error.
Cross-link to news meta: https://hexbear.net/comment/6830321
